Litsy

Victoria's Daughters | Jerrold M. Packard

My current “Royal Biography Buddy Read” with @shawnmooney !

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BarbaraBB Your home looks like Gladstone‘s Library 🤍. My next read here will be a Perspehone one, just because it seems so fitting! 3w

Leftcoastzen Nice! 3w

LeahBergen @BarbaraBB 😆 I wish!! What Persephone will you be reading? I just started

The Far Cry

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BarbaraBB I already finished it. I thought I‘d love it but am a bit underwhelmed to be honest. I will check out The Far Cry!

Someone at a Distance

LeahBergen @BarbaraBB Oh, too bad. I liked that one. 3w

BarbaraBB @LeahBergen I know you did. That‘s why I felt sure I would too 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w

tpixie Lovely Library 📚 and your book looks very interesting 🤔 3w

Gissy Beautiful collection! 😍📚👌 3w

LeahBergen @tpixie @Gissy Thank you! 😘 3w

tpixie @LeahBergen 💛🩶💛 3w

Cathythoughts Beautiful photo of a beautiful collection ❤️ 2w

LeahBergen @Cathythoughts Thanks, Cathy! 😘 2w

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5feet.of.fury

The Wild Heir | Karina Halle

bailed

There was a whole thing on socials last week where someone called the author a pedo bc the MCs name is the same as a middle name of a 12yo Swedish prince. MC of this book is in his 20s &there‘s a disclaimer about this being fictional
“reader” doubled down, claimed this was an author behaving badly even though you cant just call someone a pedo
But as the MC sped away in a speedboat from the paparazzi I realized this book was aggressively not for me

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CoffeeK8

Codename Charming: A Novel | Lucy Parker

Next vacation read!

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

William and Kate: A Royal Love Story | Christopher Andersen

#Biography

#TBR #Aboutabook

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Eggs

Eggs Very attractive photo👏🏻🫶🏻👌🏼 3mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs thank you ❤️ 3mo

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Born.A.Reader

Queen Mary | James Pope-Hennessy

#biography #aboutabook
Queen Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck's official biography.
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Fantastic 👌🏼❤️ 👑 3mo

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DebbieGrillo

Princess Diana | Joanne Mattern

Watching the final season of The Crown and thought thisline by Prince Charles was worth noting: “great pain and sadness doesn‘t discriminate — it comes to those with beauty and privilege, too.”

mcctrish I feel like the whole world was betrayed by that fairytale marriage. I have to get back to the Crown ( I have been apprehensive of the Will and Harry years ) 3mo

Eggs A tragic story in so many ways 💔 3mo

dabbe @mcctrish Agree 💯. I was OBSESSED with Diana. As a 16-year-old, I stayed up all night and watched the entire coverage of the wedding. I collected all the magazines and paraphernalia that I could. And then to finally see her on her own and on her way to happiness--only to die at 36 ... And what would she think of her sons and their petty fighting now? Tragic all around. 3mo

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mcctrish @dabbe I was at the cottage and my parents and grandparents cooked a full English breakfast using the outdoor stove for us and our neighbours ( and any of my teenage friends who‘d haul themselves out of bed and it was most of them ) while we watched on tvs brought outside. #corememorymaking 3mo

dabbe @mcctrish #sheerawesomeness 💚💙💚 3mo

Reggie My dad who I always thought of as a macho man, not toxic, surprised me when I was younger as he ran into our room, my brother‘s and mine, to tell us that Princess Diana had died. Totally caught me off guard. I hadn‘t realized he cared so much. 3mo

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Kinniska

King Zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim King | Jason Tomes

I have to admit that I expected this book to be somewhat dry or abstruse, but I have been reading it out of curiosity based on some family history.
I shouldn‘t have worried. It‘s been far more entertaining than I could‘ve hoped. It‘s often Dorothy Parker levels of skewering of the characters (and I do mean characters! Google Leon Ghilardi, for example).
Jokes aside it‘s also full of source citation; it‘s a great read.

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Kinniska

King Zog of Albania: Europe's Self-Made Muslim King | Jason Tomes

Took up reading about King Zogu because my grandparents actually met in Albania during Zog‘s reign/ era. What a strange time, and with absolute characters. Honestly I expected either transparent sentimentality or propaganda, but this has turned out to be a strangely entertaining book about not only the central character but all the people and circumstances around his rise to leadership.

Born.A.Reader

Queen Elizabeth, a Life of the Queen Mother | Penelope Mortimer

And with the addition of this book, I've reached a library of 1600 books (according to Goodreads)!! I try to keep up to date on GR to help keep track of what I own and such, and keep several shelves, including a generic "my library' one. ? ?

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